Guard for fish-lines.



No. 834,056. I PATBNTED OCT. 23, 1906.

B. W. HILDRETH.

- GUARD FOR FISH LINES.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 23,1906

. u ml MTNESSES: INVENTOR- UNITED STATE s. PATENT oFFron,

To alga/ham itjnay concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE W. Hrrn'nnrn, a citizen of the United States,residing at Melrose, in the'county ofMiddlesex and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful In) rovements inGuards for Fish- Lines; and I hereby declare the followin to be a full,clear, and exact description 0 the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to' make and use the same. a

The present invention relates to fish-line 1guards designed to hold thehookedend of a v h-line while on the rod.

It is now the practice with anglers when a rod andline is prepared foruse; but is temporar i l laid aside 'w-ithou'sremo'ving the fi or hootherefrom, to engage the hook wit some part of the line, either byhooking it into the line on the reel or by wrapping the hooked. endaround the rod and engagin the hook with the'running line. Also in t'ose rods having cork handles the hook is sometimes inserted in the.cork of. the handle. Many fishermen when starting for a day's sportcarry several rods with them prepared for use, and much difiiculty andannoyance tially as the tongue has been ex rienced b the constantdisengagement o the hooks om their temporary astenings in the line or inthe cork surface of 'the handle, resultin in the hooks flying around asthe rods are andled, endangering the clothing and hands of the partieshandling the rods and rendering them liable to become tangled with otherlines and injuring the hooks or flies and the lines. 7

The object ofthe present invention is to provide a safety-guard for theuse of anglers whereby the hooked end of the line may be securely heldand prevented from becoming injured or from entanglement with otherlines and hooks when the rod and line is tern-- porarily out of use.

A further object of the invention is to provide a safety-guard for thehooked ends of lines while on the rods, which safety-guard may bereadily attached to and removed from the rod.

' To the above ends the present invention consists of the im rovedsaftey-guard for fish-lines, which wil be hereinafter described andclaimed. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 23,1906. Serial Nb. 823.017.

Patented Oct. 28,1906.

fish-rod. Fig. 2 shows a safety guard as forming art of the movableretaining-king of the fis -line reel Fig. 3 shows a modifi-- I cationwhereinthe cli aniii spring-ton e'are formed integrally. ig. 4 shows aandle of a fish-rod, illustrating the use of my improved safety-guardand showing the appli-" cation to the rod of the forms of the deviceshown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Similar reference characters will be employed throughout 'thespecification and drawings to desi ate corresponding arts.

' As shown in i 1, my improved safetygiiard consists of tie spring metalclip a and the tongue b, also made of spring metal. The clip a andtongue bare curved, as shown clearly in Fig 1, and the clip a will be'preferably. bent outwardly at itsfree ends. as

shown at c, to facilitate its application tot-he, handle of the rod, asshown in Fig. 4. The

tongue bwill be secured to the clip a) by the rivets d, and its free endwill be outwardly bent, as indicated at e. The whole-device is formed ofspring metal and stamped u as shown in F1 1, and the tongue I) wil lieclose to and I01 In Fig. 2 the ton of is forined'substariand has itsfree end up turned, as shown at g, and at its opposite end bend m, fromw ich point the tongue Z ex tends around the clip It, as shown in dottedlines, and has its 'free end bent outwardly, as shown at n.

- In use the device shown in Figs. 1 and 3 may be s rung over the handleof the fishrod, as s own clearly in Fig. 4, and the hobked end of theline will be passed under the tongue b or l, as the case may be, wherelow the contour of the clip a."

it will be firmly held between the smooth parallel gripping-faces of thetongue and clip. If the form shown in Fig. 2 be used,

thehooked'end of the line will be passed under the tongue f in the samemanner.

Of course it will be understood-that while in Fig. 4 the forms shown inFigs. 1 and 2 are both shown, only one will be used, this view beingmerely a diagrammatic view illustratingthe use of both forms.

If afiy be used, it will be spread out and 8 5 I it is secured, by meansof rivets h, to the ring

